in fact, many tea party members lost their re-election bid in 2012. it is hard to generalize, but you could look at a number of them and say that this sort of souring of public opinion on the tea party as a result of their perceived unwillingness to compromise in 2011 over the debt ceiling negotiations probably was held against them, probably heard not only them in their reelection bid, but also republicans more broadly and republican brand, because they are perceived to be the party of in transient as a result of this increasingly small minority within the house republican conference that is made up of self identifying two-party roads who rode the wave in 2010 into office. in some ways, they're carrying out their mandate. this is what they said in the campaign, that there were not on a compromise on the fiscal issues. they are not doing it. it is had a rather gridlock- inducing effect on the government and a damaging effect on perceptions of both the tea party and the republican party. >> and your sense of where dick armey goes with is a million- dol